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Bill Mollison was an Australian author, ecologist, and pioneer in sustainable design. Born in 1928, he passed away on September 24, 2016. Mollison is renowned for his contributions to ecological agriculture and sustainable community design, particularly for co-founding the Permaculture movement with David Holmgren.

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“Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.”

“Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals. I never listened to what they were saying - I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.”

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“Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system”

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Book:Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture

Source: Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture

“Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.”

“Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.”

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“Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.”

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Born: 1928
Died: September 24, 2016
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